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    Lesotho child grant programme and linking food security to social protection programme

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2015
    This paper presents findings from an impact evaluation of a combination of two types of agricultural and social protection programmes: the Lesotho Child Grant Programme (CGP) and the FAO -Lesotho Linking Food Security to Social Protection Programme (LFSSP).
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    Evaluation of the social cash transfer pilot programme, Tigray region, Ethiopia

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2015
    In 2011, the Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs (BoLSA), Regional Government of Tigray, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), introduced the Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) in two woredas, Abi Adi and Hintalo Wajirat. The SCTPP aims to improve the quality of life for vulnerable children, older persons, and persons with disabilities.
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    Qualitative research and analyses of the economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2015
    This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of six country case studies that explore the impact of cash transfer (CT) programmes on household economic decision-making and the local economy in sub-Saharan Africa. The study seeks to understand the impact of CT programmes in three interrelated areas:
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    Rapid analysis of previous famines

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2015
    This HEART helpdesk provides a rapid analysis of famines since 1980. It is divided into three sections:
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    Food fortification for a smarter healthier more productive world

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2015
    More than two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency,  otherwise known as hidden hunger. Hidden hunger is a lack of the vital micronutrients needed to live a health life. Hidden hunger is different from hunger in that it is caused by the consumption of a diet that lacks essential micronutrients.
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    Fortifying our future: A snapshot report on food fortification

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2015
    This snapshot report sets GAIN's perspective on food fortification and highlights the work of their partners in order to effectively employ food fortification as part of a new global food security system. In it the authors showcase efforts to drastically improve the nutritional quality of the diets of vulnerable and food insecure people across the globe.
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    Cash transfers and child nutrition: what we know and what we need to know

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2015
    Childhood malnutrition remains a significant global problem with an estimated 162 million children under 5 suffering from stunted growth. Social protection interventions, in particular cash transfer programmes, have the potential to contribute to the improvement of child nutrition.
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    Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and accountability to advance nutrition and sustainable development

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Tackling, reducing, and even eliminating malnutrition in all of its forms should be considered an achievable priority for the world. This is a sentiment expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the 2015 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit, and in this 2015 Global Nutrition Report.
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    Nutrition and social protection

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2015
    This document analyses linkages and complementarities between social protection and nutrition, laying out the common ground between the two. It identifies general principles which should guide the design and implementation of social protection interventions in order to maximize their positive impact on nutrition.
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    Maternal willingness to pay for infant and young child nutrition counseling services in Vietnam

    Global Health Action, 2015
    The research in this article aims to estimate maternal willingness to pay (WTP) for nutrition counseling services and to examine potential factors associated with their WTP. Data were drawn from an impact evaluation survey of 2,511 women with a child <2 years old from four provinces in Vietnam.

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